Seton Hall University - Galleon Yearbook (South Orange, NJ)

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oooco coccoc 1868 1876 MOST REVEREND MICHAEL A. CORRIGAN Third President of Seton Hail College, Dr. Corrigan was later Bishop of Newark, and, in 1865, became Archbishop of New York. During his administration of the school, he introduced many innovations, built new buildings, and widened the course of study. He was one of America’s great Catholic churchmen, and one of Setonia’s outstanding presidents. 1876 1888 REVEREND JAMES H. CORRIGAN Fr. Corrigan succeeded his brother, Archbishop Corrigan, as fourth Presi- dent upon the latter’s resignation. Cor- rigan organized the Alumni Association, and celebrated the college’s Silver Jubi- lee Year in 1881. The newly-organized alumni group constructed Alumni Hall in 1884. The highlight of every scholastic year at Seton Hall College was the annual June com mencement, which was a colorful, Victorian ceremony. The “Newark Journal’’ of June 17, 1885, said that The exercises will be held in the new and spacious Alumni Hall . . . It is an elegant place and peculiarly adapted to the holding of such affairs. The pro- gramme arranged for the afternoon is a long and exceedingly interesting one, embracing singing, recitations, speech-making and awarding of prizes.” m m ■ 1S The Mother Seton window, Adminis- tration Building, Seton Hall University, is one of the oldest known likenesses of the Saindy Elizabeth Bayley Seton.

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Historic Setonia . . . 1856 MOST REV. JAMES ROOSEVELT BAYLEY Scion of one of America’s great families and cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bayley was a convert to Catholo- cism. He was Bishop of Newark, 1853-1872, and Arch- bishop of Baltimore, 1872-1877, and was the founder of Seton Hall, which he named in honor of his saindy aunt. Mother Seton. RT. REV. BERNARD J. McQUAlD First president of the foundling Seton Hall Col- lege in 1856, Msgr. McQuaid headed the school during its most difficult days, and was responsible for the transferring of Seton Hall from Madison to South Orange in 1861. He was later appoint- ed the first Bishop of Rochester. • r» 5 hV Seton Hall College had its humble beginnings in this frame building at Madison, New Jersey, the present site of the College of St. Elizabeth. Starting out with only a few ‘‘selected gentlemen from the vicinity of New York City”, the college soon prospered and moved to larger quarters in South Orange.

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t In 1869, the campus looked much as it does above— a very Victorianized, regal group of buildings, built in the popular Gothic- Victorian type architecture which characterizes the era. Seton Hall was now graduating more and more students, and was supplying young priests to staff the new churches of the Diocese of Newark, 1888 • 1897 REVEREND WILLIAM F. MARSHALL V- 000 “V- 110 pf ■ CovW«® ‘pT t . e . a tcC e . x y oV etA°® Setonia’s fifth president was Fr. Mar- shall, who was a distinguished literary man, and who organized the Spanish- American War reserve unit at the South Orange campus. O ' 3 AMO ' Z - 1861 tVie te tYx® , The two buildings shown in the rare engraving below formed part of the original Seton Hall group, but were de- stroyed in the several disastrous fires which swept the campus during this period. s am A •Dt- C,ort e3 w ' aeon One of the earliest graduating classes.